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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?
(a) "Don Quixote."
(b) "History of the Rebellion."
(c) "Tristram Shandy."
(d) "Animal Farm."

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) After WWI.
(b) During the Russian Revolution.
(c) Before WWII.
(d) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.

3. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) William Morris.
(c) George Gordon.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

4. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the reader.
(b) To the critic.
(c) To the text.
(d) To the author.

5. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
(a) Walter Raleigh.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) George Gordon.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

6. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?
(a) That there are multiple traditions.
(b) That there are multiple modernities.
(c) That there is a single, mainstream modernity.
(d) That there is a single, mainstream tradition.

7. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Canonical.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Practical.
(d) Religious.

8. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."
(a) "Boudoir; laboratory."
(b) "Boudoir; system."
(c) "Philosophy; laboratory."
(d) "Laboratory; boudoir."

9. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(b) "A disproportion between two signifiers."
(c) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."

10. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The fiction.
(c) The facts.
(d) The critic.

11. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Being and Time."
(b) "Meaning or Method."
(c) "Validity in Interpretation."
(d) "Truth and Fact."

12. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) J. M. Keynes.
(b) I. Fischer.
(c) Gordon Tuck.
(d) Adam Smith.

13. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Ayn Rand.
(b) Walter Benjamin.
(c) Martin Heidegger.
(d) Hannah Arendt.

14. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Excluding; oppression.
(b) Emancipating; stranglehold.
(c) Studying; truth.
(d) Dismissing; idea.

15. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Religious.
(b) Spectacular.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Secular.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

2. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

4. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.

5. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?

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